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The first 6 digits of a credit card number are known as the Issuer
Identification Number (IIN), previously known as Bank
Identification Number (BIN).
These identify the institution that issued the card to the card holder.

This webservice has an internal database with IIN/BIN information,
which is queried via the Rest
API. There's no magic or tricky
calculations, it's just a database. And although the database is
very accurate, don't expect it to be perfect.

Usage for developers

Make HTTP GET requests to http://www.binlist.net/{format}/{bin}

Supported formats are csv, xml or json.

Examples

Limits

Due to the high volume of queries we've implemented a throttling
mechanism, which allows at most 10,000 queries per hour.
After reaching this hourly quota, all your requests result in HTTP
403 (Forbidden) until it clears up on the next roll over.